Cornell Woolrich

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born

December 04, 1903 in The United States

died

September 25, 1968

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

influences

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels that won him comparisons to F. Scott Fitzgerald. The bulk of his best-known work, however, was written in the field of crime fiction, often appearing serialized in pulp magazines or as paperback novels. Because he was prolific, he found it necessary to publish under multiple pseudonyms, including "William Irish" and "George Hopley" [...] Woolrich lived a l...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,980 ratings · 241 reviews · 76 distinct works

	Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich, Richard Dooling (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1948 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich, William Irish (pseud.) 3.99 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Rear Window 3.93 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1942 — 16 editions	My rating:
	I Married a Dead Man 3.86 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Fright (Hard Case Crime #34) 3.66 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1950 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Night Has a Thousand Eyes 3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1945 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness 4.31 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Phantom Lady by Cornell Woolrich, William Irish (pseud.) 3.89 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1942 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Black Curtain 3.74 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1941 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, William Irish (pseud.) 3.73 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1947 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Blues of a Lifetime: Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

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“I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.”
― Cornell Woolrich

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“As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.”
― Cornell Woolrich

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